Wales

Llandaff's female Dean quits

The Very Rev Janet Henderson - who became Llandaff Cathedral's first woman Dean in March, and only the second in Welsh history - had pledged her support to ordaining women bishops so the church could 'move on'. The reason for her decision is unknown.

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The Archbishop of Wales has, with enormous sadness, accepted the resignation with immediate effect of the Very Rev Janet Henderson as Dean of Llandaff.

He has, in the meantime, asked the Archdeacon of Llandaff, the Venerable Peggy Jackson, as the senior member of the chapter, to have necessary oversight of the cathedral on his behalf, until a new dean is appointed.